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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
universes like the air pervading the Akasa- Earth,
Akasa, Vayu, mountains and the quarters even
when combined, will not make up even an
infinitesimal small particle of this rock. In this
beautiful one are to be found the sacred marks of
lotus, discus and conch 121. It may be said to be in
the Sushupti state. All the universes awe no other
than Jnana itself, like parts of a rock which are no
other than the rock itself. The wise say It will ever
be as It was before. Though, like the granite rock,
there are absorbed in the heart heterogeneous
universes with their various marks, yet Chit is nond.al
without any differences. Like the analogy of a
forest of lotuses appearing (at a distance) like one
stone, all the universes without being
differentiated in Jnana are one replete Chit. Have
you ever seen lotuses and the like hatched or
generated out of a big rock? Similarly are the three
worlds, (not born out of and absorbed into Jnana)
but the light of Jnana only. As in the aforementioned
illustration of the marrow of the Bilwa
fruit, the many mundane eggs that have
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